What has been given you? ²The knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and purely mind, sinless forever, wholly unafraid, because you were created out of love. ³Nor have you left your Source, remaining as you were created. ⁴This was given you as knowledge which you cannot lose. ⁵It was given as well to every living thing, for by that knowledge only does it live.
You have received all this. ²No one who walks the world but has received it. …⁷Experience cannot be shared directly, in the way that vision can. ⁸The revelation that the Father and the Son are one will come in time to every mind.
The time is set already. ²It appears to be quite arbitrary. ³Yet there is no step along the road that anyone takes but by chance. …⁶We but undertake a journey that is over. ⁷Yet it seems to have a future still unknown to us.
Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and go as if by magic. ²Yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change. ³The script is written. ⁴When experience will come to end your doubting has been set. ⁵For we but see the journey from the point at which it ended, looking back on it, imagining we make it once again; reviewing mentally what has gone by. (A Course in Miracles, W-158.1:1–2:2,7-8;3:1-3,6-7;4. See also ACIM Lesson 158 Insights.)
The ego uses time to make us unaware of the eternal present in which we live in the oneness of God’s Love. By dwelling on the past, we carry images of separation which we use to judge what we perceive in the present. Because our perception of the present is based on past images, we cannot see the unity of Love that is our reality.
Forgiveness is the key that dispels the veil of the past. By forgiving our past learning, we let the Holy Spirit show us our true Self, which lives in Love. We joyously recognize that our brothers are joined with us as our one Self. Forgiveness opens our mind to receive the revelation that we remain at one with our Creator in changeless Love.
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